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Exchange

Move a document between firm and client — and sign it without leaving.

Inside the internal tools, Document Exchange handled the flow of documents between Intuit’s agents and their clients, with an e-signature capability built on DocuSign for Salesforce folded directly in. The craft was in a signing flow that felt trustworthy at every step.

document exchange — e-sign flow
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E-SERVICES ENROLLMENT
Case: #123456
Due: 09/15/2018
2d overdue
Status: Open
▾ Documents (2)+ Add add documents
LPOA-FL
eSign or download, sign and upload
Form 8655
Send 8655 for ABC Corporation
▾ Comments
Aliza Smith Today, 1:34 PM
eSigning the document
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01The problem

Documents move between two parties who don’t share a screen.

An agent inside the platform and a client outside it need to pass documents back and forth — and, often, sign them. That’s two audiences at once: the expert agent who lives in the internal tool, and the client who touches it briefly and needs it to feel obvious and safe. The e-signature step is where trust is won or lost.

Agent side

Dense, efficient, part of the operations workflow.

Client side

Brief, clear, trustworthy — a customer-facing widget, not a platform.

02The e-sign flow

View the document. Affix the signature. Done.

Built on DocuSign for Salesforce, the signing experience kept the document front and center — read it, then place a signature on it in the same view, without a jarring hand-off to a separate tool.

view document — e-sign
E-SERVICES ENROLLMENT
LPOA - FL
eSign  |  Download
POWER OF ATTORNEY AND DECLARATION
BETWEEN
▸ Document Tags
Invoice CopyDocument Subtype
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Sally Martin (A) Today, 1:34 PM
Please upload a copy with legible customer sign
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STEPRead it in context

The document never leaves the frame.

The signer views the actual document in the flow — no download-print-scan detour — so the thing being signed is always the thing on screen.

STEPAffix the signature

A clear, deliberate act.

Placing the signature is its own explicit step — legible and confirmable, so signing feels intentional rather than incidental. That deliberateness is what makes an e-signature feel as trustworthy as a wet one.

affix signature — e-sign
E-SERVICES ENROLLMENT
LPOA - FL
PURCHASE AND SALE AGREEMENT
BETWEEN
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03The customer side

For the client, dead simple was the whole point.

The other half of the exchange is the customer-facing portal — where a client who touches this briefly sees exactly what’s being asked of them and nothing else. A plain list of requested documents, a company selector, an upload, and an unambiguous confirmation.

customer portal — document upload requests
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Place to share documents securely
Document Upload Requests
Select the company
SIGTest XI Ops Test IOP
Virginia_WH_MTN-180110-0002
Federal_WH_MTN-171221-0014
California_WH_MTN-171219-0168
Virginia_WH_MTN-180123-0121
Federal_WH_MTN-171026-0111
California_WH_MTN-171024-0080
Oregon_WH_MTN-180123-0120
Federal_WH_MTN-171106-0138
California_WH_MTN-171219-0169
CLIENTJust what’s needed

A checklist, not a platform.

The client sees a scrollable list of exactly the documents requested, scoped to their company, each with a single upload action. No account to learn, no navigation to get lost in — the widget does one job and makes it obvious.

CLIENTUnambiguous done

Green check, no doubt.

An explicit “Upload Successful” confirmation and a completed row leave no question about whether the document went through — the reassurance a brief-visit user needs before they close the tab.

customer portal — upload successful
Log Out
Place to share documents securely
Document Upload Requests
Select the company
SIGTest XI Ops Test IOP
Virginia_WH_MTN-180110-0002
Federal_WH_MTN-171221-0014
California_WH_MTN-171219-0168
Virginia_WH_MTN-180123-0121
Federal_WH_MTN-171026-0111
California_WH_MTN-171024-0080
Oregon_WH_MTN-180123-0120
Federal_WH_MTN-171106-0138
California_WH_MTN-171219-0169
Upload Successful
Thank you for submitting the document requested. Your document was uploaded successfully.
What it taught me

One feature, two audiences, native to the system.

Document Exchange had to serve the expert agent and the brief-visit client at once, on top of DocuSign for Salesforce, inside Intuit’s established design language. Make it feel native — designed in, not bolted on.